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What a week for Andy Gray and Richard Keys! First the Sky Sports pundits get the boot from their long-time posts for repeated acts of sexist behaviour, and now they're the stars of their own iPhone app! The Andy...

A few weeks back, AMD slammed the netbook, with CEO Dirk Meyer saying "We're ignoring the Netbook phenomenon--just thinking about PC form factors above that form factor." Well, Intel has joined them in decrying netbooks as a fad. Sales and Marketing VP, Stu Pann, said:

"We view the Netbook as mostly incremental to our total available market. If you've ever used a Netbook and used a 10-inch screen size--it's fine for an hour. It's not something you're going to use day in and day out."

Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple Inc, reckons that the iPod has had its day, and doesn't like the restrictions Apple have imposed on the iPhone. Wozniak, or Woz as he's more commonly known, spoke to the Telegraph and said oversupply could bring the iPod down:

"The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one. Things like, that if you look back to transistor radios and Walkmans, they kind of die out after a while. It's kind of like everyone has got one or two or three. You get to a point when they are on display everywhere, they get real cheap and they are not selling as much."

Steve Ballmer's been talking to a number of sites about the challenge faced by Android, as well as future Zune plans. They sound quite intriguing, and he doesn't miss the chance to bash Google. Over to Steve...